Undergraduate Courses
2023–24 CALENDAR
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The following DTS program requirements apply only to those students who enrolled in the program in or after September 2014. Students who enrolled before that date should fulfill the requirements listed in the A&S Calendar of the year in which they enrolled.
DIASPORA & TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES MAJOR
Completion Requirements:
(7.0 credits, including at least 2.0 at the 300+ level)
- DTS200Y1 ( Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies)
- DTS300H1 (Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning)
- 4.5 full-course equivalents (FCEs) from Group A and B courses, with at least two FCEs from each group. Coverage must include at least two diasporic communities or regions, to be identified in consultation with the program advisor.
- 1.0 DTS credit at the 400-level
DIASPORA & TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES MINOR
Completion Requirements:
(4.0 credits, including at least 1.0 credit at the 300+ level)
- DTS200Y1 (Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies)
- DTS300H1 (Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning)
- 2.0 credits from Group A and B courses, with at least 1.0 credit from each group.
- 0.5 DTS credit at the 400-level
Group A and B Courses:
Group A: Humanities Courses
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Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
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Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
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African Systems of Thought
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Critical Histories of the Black Canadian Experience
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Capitalism and Crisis in the Caribbean
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The Holocaust, from 1942
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Caribbean Women Thinkers
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Indigenous Histories of the Great Lakes from 1815 to the Present
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Caribbean Indentureship and its Legacies
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Indigenous Histories of the Great Lakes, to 1830
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Caribbean Migrations and Diaspora
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The History of Hong Kong
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Caribbean Diaspora in Canada
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Japan in the World, Mid-16th to Mid-20th Century
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Introduction to Jewish Thought
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Black Freedom in the Atlantic World | |
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Introduction to Jewish Culture
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Screening Freedom
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The Holocaust in Fiction
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HIS402H1
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Canada and Decolonization
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God, Nation and Self Transformed: The Secularization of the Jewish Experience
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Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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Jewish Secularism and Messianic Thought: From Spinoza to Derrida
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Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
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Community & Identity
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Nationalism & Memory in Modern Europe
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The Irish in Canada
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Canada and Empire in the Twentieth Century
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Irish Nationalism in Canada
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Polish Jews since the Partition of Poland
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Creative Writing
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Russia's Empire
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Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race
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Topics in Jewish History
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Contemporary Theories in Critical Disability Studies
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Nationalism
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Special Topics in Diaspora and Transnational Studies
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Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
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Transnational Toronto
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French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film
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Fun in Diaspora
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Indigenous-Newcomer Relations in Canadian History
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Exile
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Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization
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Citizenship and Multiculturalism
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Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
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Diasporic Foodways
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Gandhi's Global Conversations
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Transnational Justice
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Globalization and Urban Change
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The Diasporic Imagination
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Italian-Canadian Literature
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Global Sexualities
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Cinema of the Italian Diasporas
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Money on the Move
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Hebrew Bible
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Diaspora at Home
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Dead Sea Scrolls
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Wars, Diaspora and Music
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The Turks in History: From Nomads of the Steppe Frontier to Islamic Rulers
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9 to 5: A Transnational History of the Working Day
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Topics in Judaism and Feminism: Conflict, Competition, Complement
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Modern East Asia
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History of Ancient Israel
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History of Capitalism in Modern Japan
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Life Cycle and Personal Status in Judaism
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Aesthetics and Politics in 20th Century Korea
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Intellectuals of the Modern Arab World
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20th Century Korean History
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Orientalism & Occidentalism
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Culture & World After Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics | ||
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The "Yellow Peril": Past & Present
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Death, Dying and Afterlife | ||
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Modernism and Colonial Korea
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Roots of Christianity and Judaism
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Modern Japan and the Colonial Question
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Dreaming of Zion: Exile and Return in Jewish Thought
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Travels, Travelers and Travel Accounts in Asia
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Social Ecology and Judaism
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The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time, and Colonialism
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Time and Place in Judaism | ||
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U.S. and Canada's Wars in Asia
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Devotional Literature of Early Modern India
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Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
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Modern Jewish Thought
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The English Language in the World
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Christianity and Judaism in Colonial Context
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African Literatures in English
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Introduction to South Asian Studies
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Asian North American Literature
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Colonialism and Tradition
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South Asian Literatures in English
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Jewish Communities in Slavic Countries
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Postcolonial and Transnational Discourses
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Forging Identities: The Roms of Central and Eastern Europe
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The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience
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Literature of the Ukranian-Canadian Experience
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Advanced Topics in Francophone Literatures
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The Imaginary Jew
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Francophone Literatures
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Literary Imagination and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
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Francophone Cinema
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Nabokov
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Postcolonialism: Francophone Literatures
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City of Saints and Sinners: Kyiv through the Centuries
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Yiddish Literature in Translation (E)
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Literature of Exile and Immigration
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Topics in Yiddish or German Jewish Literature and Culture
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Language, Politics, Identity
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The African Diaspora in the Americas, 1492-1804
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Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies
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Gender, Race and Science
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Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies
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History of the Jewish People
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Latin American Cinema | ||
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History of South Asia
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Literature and Social Change in Spanish America
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History of Southeast Asia: How the Lands Below the Winds Reshaped the World
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Topics in Spanish-American Literature and Culture
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Latin America: The Colonial Period
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Icons and Iconography in Latin American Culture
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History of Africa
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Central America Postwar Narrative
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The Mediterranean, 600-1300: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
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Citizenship in the Canadian City
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Immigration to Canada
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Gradients of Health in an Urban Mosaic | ||
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Germany from Frederick the Great to the First World War
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Studies in Post-Colonialism
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Medieval Spain
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Asian/North American Feminist Issues
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The Holocaust, to 1942
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Gender and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives
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Rice, Sugar, and Spice in Southeast Asia: A History of Food in the Region
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Group B: Social Sciences Courses (113)
| Course Title | Course Code | Course Title | Course Code |
| ANT204H1 | Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues | GGR430H1 | Geographies of Markets |
| ANT318H1 | The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory | GGR452H1 | Space, Power, Geography: Understanding Spaciality |
| ANT324H1 | Tourism & Globalization | GGR457H1 | The Post-War Suburbs |
| ANT340H1 | Anthropology of Latin America | LCT304H1 | Praxis and Performance |
| ANT341H1 | China in Transition | NUS251H0 | Southeast Asia |
| ANT345H1 | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives | NUS252H0 | Rice, Spice & Trees: Peasants in Southeast Asia |
| ANT346H1 | Anthropology of Food | NUS253H0 | Economy and Space |
| ANT347H1 | Metropolis: Global Cities | NUS255H0 | Cities and Urban Life in Southeast Asia |
| ANT348H1 | Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics | NUS256H0 | Changing Landscape of Singapore |
| ANT349H1 | Anthropology and New Technologies | NUS351Y0 | Field Studies in Geography: SE Asia |
| JAL355H1 | Language and Gender | NUS352H0 | East Asia |
| ANT356H1 | Anthropology of Religion | NUS353H0 | Globalization and Asian Cities |
| ANT358H1 | Medical Anthropology and Social Justice | JLN327H1 | Culture and Modernity in the Hispanic Caribbean |
| ANT364H1 | Environment & Globalization | POL201H1 | Politics of Development |
| ANT366H1 | Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice | POL224H1 | Canada in Comparative Perspective |
| ANT370H1 | Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory | POL301H1 | Colonial Legacies and Post-Independence African Politics |
| ANT372H1 | Cultural Property | POL305H1 | Introduction to Latin American Politics and Societies |
| ANT426H1 | Western Views of the Non-West | POL324H1 | European Union: Politics, Institutions and Society |
| ANT450H1 | Multispecies Cities | JPR364H1 | Religion and Politics in the Nation State |
| ANT456H1 | Queer Ethnography | JPR374H1 | Religion and Power in the Postcolony |
| ANT456H1 | Queer Ethnography | Political Economy of Technology: From the Auto-Industrial to the Information Age | |
| ANT458H1 | Settler-Colonialism and Indigenous Health in Canada | POL413H1 | Global Environmental Politics |
| ANT460H1 | Global Perspectives on Women's Health | POL417H1 | Politics of North-South Relations |
| ANT472H1 | Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives | JPR419H1 | Secularism and Religion |
| ANT475H1 | Reading Ethnography | POL421H1 | Maimonides and His Modern Interpreters |
| ANT477H1 | Transnational Korea in and outside the Peninsula | POL430Y1 | Comparative Studies in Jewish and Non-Jewish Political Thought |
| CSE342H1 | Theory and Praxis in Food Security | POL442H1 | Topics in Latin American Politics |
| DTS305H1 | Special Topics in Diaspora and Transnational Studies | JPF455Y1 | Conceptualizing Cities in a Global Context |
| DTS310H1 | Transnational Toronto | POL467H1 | The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada |
| DTS311H1 | Fun in Diaspora | POL480H1 | Studies in Comparative Political Theory |
| DTS312H1 | Exile | SOC210H1 | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity |
| DTS314H1 | Citizenship and Multiculturalism | SOC214H1 | Sociology of the Family |
| DTS410H1 | Diasporic Foodways | SOC218H1 | Asian Communities in Canada |
| DTS411H1 | Transnational Justice | SOC220H1 | Social Stratification |
| DTS412H1 | The Diasporic Imagination | SOC246H1 | Sociology of Aging |
| DTS413H1 | Global Sexualities | SOC250Y1 | Sociology of Religion |
| DTS414H1 | Money on the Move | SOC256H1 | Lives and Societies |
| DTS415H1 | Diaspora at Home | SOC304H1 | Status and Class Mobility |
| DTS416H1 | Wars, Diaspora and Music | SOC311H1 | Immigration and Race Relations in Canada |
| DTS417H1 | 9 to 5: A Transnational History of the Working Day | SOC315H1 | Domestic Violence |
| ENT391H1 | Exploring New Ventures | SOC360H1 | Social Movements |
| ENT392Y1 | Exploring New Ventures | SOC364H1 | Urban Health |
| GGR112H1 | Geographies of Globalization, Development and Inequality | SOC367H1 | Race, Class, and Gender |
| JGU216H1 | Globalization and Urban Change | SOC370H1 | Immigration and Employment |
| GGR241H1 | Geographies of Urban Social Exclusion | SOC381H1 | Culture and Inequality |
| GGR246H1 | Geography of Canada | SOC383H1 | The Sociology of Women and International Migration |
| GGR320H1 | Geographies of Transnationalism, Migration and Gender | SOC388H1 | Sociology of Everyday Life |
| JGE321H1 | Multicultural Perspectives on Environmental Management | SOC465H1 | Advanced Studies in Gender |
| GGR326H1 | Remaking the Global Economy | SOC479H1 | Advanced Studies in Social Movements |
| GGR336H1 | Urban Historical Geography of North America | SOC481H1 | Culture and Social Networks |
| GGR339H1 | Urban Geography, Planning and Political Processes | SOC484H1 | Children of Immigrants |
| GGR341H1 | The Changing Geography of Latin America | UNI101H1 | Citizenship in the Canadian City |
| GGR342H1 | The Changing Geography of Southeast Asia | UNI103H1 | Gradients of Health in an Urban Mosaic |
| GGR343H1 | The Changing Geography of China | VIC183H1 | Individuals and the Public Sphere: Shaping Memory |
| JGU346H1 | The Urban Planning Process | VIC184H1 | Individuals and the Public Sphere: History, Historiography, and Making Cultural Memory |
| GGR360H1 | Culture, History, and Landscape | WGS450H1 | Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship: Gender and the Black Diaspora |
| GGR363H1 | Critical Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas on Space, Society and Culture |
DTS COURSE DESCRIPTIONS OFFERED IN 2023–24
DTS199H1 - Superman and Other Migrants
Fall 2023, Tuesdays 10:00am - 12:00pm
Description TBA
Instructors: N. Seidman
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
DTS200Y1 - Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I
Full Year 2023–24, Tuesdays 12:00pm - 2:00pm
What is the relationship between place and belonging, between territory and memory? How have the experiences of migration and dislocation challenged the modern assumption that the nation-state should be the limit of identification? What effect has the emergence of new media of communication had upon the coherence of cultural and political boundaries? All of these questions and many more form part of the subject matter of Diaspora and Transnational Studies. This introductory course ex-amines the historical and contemporary movements of peoples and the complex issues of identity and experience to which these processes give rise as well as the creative possibilities that flow from movement and being moved. The area of study is comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing from the social sciences, history, the arts and humanities. Accordingly, this course provides the background to the subject area from diverse perspectives and introduces students to a range of key debates in the field, with particular attention to questions of history, globalization, cultural production and the creative imagination.
Instructors: S. Kassamali, A. Pesarini
Exclusion: DTS201H1, DTS202H1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS300H1 - Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning
Winter 2024, Tuesdays 10:00am – 12:00pm
Focuses on research design and training in methods from history, geography, anthropology, literary and cultural studies, and other disciplines appropriate to Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Prepares students to undertake primary research required in senior seminars.
Instructor: P. Scanlan
Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: DTS200Y1/CJS200H1/CJS201H1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
DTS305H1 - Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism: NAFTA: Anthropology of Free Trade
Winter 2024, Thursdays 10:00am – 12:00pm
Do you ever wonder where your yearlong supply of avocados comes from? Do you know how Canadian mining companies benefit from Mexico’s so-called drug war? Did you know that an auto-part crosses the Mexico-US border, back-and-forth, about seven times before being assembled into a car? This course grapples with these and similar questions by taking a critical look at free trade. Specifically, we focus on NAFTA/CUSMA, the Canada-Mexico-United States free trade agreement. We approach free trade as a transnational legal and socio-economic structure that engenders contradictions, contestations, and appropriations while simultaneously reproducing the conditions for predatory accumulation. The North American geo-economic region enables the easy and speedy flow of commodities and capital and simultaneously constrains people’s movement through militarized borders and through strictly regulated labour migration. Through a critical look at the ongoing (re)making of “North America,” we examine free trade as an instrument of neoliberal capitalism and imperialism, and as a technology shrinking time-space and of acceleration. Among the topics to be examined are labour, migration, the narcoeconomy, mining, export agriculture, corporations, the environment, and transnational solidarities. The course will provide students with conceptual tools to think critically about free trade in any locale and, more broadly, about current configurations of capitalism.
Instructor: A. Gonzalez Jimenez
Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS310H1 - Transnational Toronto
Fall 2023, Mondays 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Toronto is a city increasingly configured through transnational connections and practices. It is a city defined by the scale at which its residents live their lives; a scale that is no longer (if it ever was) parochial, but extends across time and space to connect people and practice across a multitude of locales. Contemporary understandings of Toronto can only be reached through adopting a transnational lens. This course will examine the processes that have produced Toronto as a transnational city over time, including the dynamics of immigration and mobility, experiences of alienation, the global extension of capitalism, and the (re)formation of communities grounded in the complex dynamics of identities produced in a space that is both ‘home’ and away’. We will also explore the specific practices, and connections that produce “Toronto” as a space that transcends its physical geographic boundaries and is continually reproduced in and through the flows of people, capital, objects, ideas, - and the many forces that reproduce and reconfigure these flows.
Instructor: K. MacDonald
Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 Credits
Distribution Requirement: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS314H1 - Citizenship and Multiculturalism
Fall 2023, Wednesdays 2:00pm – 4:00pm
This course examines approaches to belonging and distinction that accompany different models of citizenship. What are some historical and recent trends in the intersections of place, custom, and rights? How have governments related social diversity to social justice in theory and in practice? Areas of emphasis will vary, but may include topics such as authenticity and assimilation; ethno-nationalism; immigration and naturalization policy; indigeneity; insurgency; legacies of colonialism; mass media and popular culture; policing and surveillance; racial stratification; transnational markets; and xenophobia.
Instructor: E. Sammons
Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS390H1 - Independent Study [TBA]
Fall 2023, Winter 2024
A scholarly project chosen by the student, approved by the Department, and supervised by one of its instructors. Consult with the Diaspora and Transnational Studies Program Office for more information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
DTS390Y1 - Independent Study [TBA]
Full Year 2023–24
A scholarly project chosen by the student, approved by the Department, and supervised by one of its instructors. Consult with the Diaspora and Transnational Studies Program Office for more information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
DTS401H1 - Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism: TBA
Winter 2024, Wednesdays, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 14 FCE, including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS402H1 - Advanced Topics in DTS: Desire in Yiddish Literature
Fall 2023, Tuesdays 2:00pm-4:00pm
What does "desire" mean to a Yiddish writer? Desire most commonly refers to sexuality and the erotic life. The object of desire may be a person, but it can also be a thing, an idea, an art form, and more. How does our milieu affect our sense of who or what we desire? Yiddish writers have always been necessarily multicultural, multilingual, trans-continental in knowledge and perspective. They responded to an extraordinarily diverse array of political and social movements including emigration/immigration, various forms of nationalism, socialism, religious belief, rejection of religious observance. In exploring the short fiction and poetry that address these concerns, we will consider authors whose names may be familiar to some (e.g., Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Aleichem); we will certainly read authors who are largely unknown despite English translations of their work (e.g., Celia Dropkin, Lamed Shapiro, Yankev Glatshteyn, and more). Experimenting with modern literary forms and modern personal and political choices, these authors reveal the remarkable range of Yiddish writing in the twentieth century. (All works will be read in English translation, though Yiddish texts will also be made available.)
Instructor: A. Norich
Prerequisite: 14 FCE, including DTS200Y1/CJS200H1/CJS201H1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS404H1 - Advanced Topics in DTS: History and Counterstories in the Black Mediterranean
Fall 2023, Wednedays 2:00pm-4:00pm
This course explores colonial histories and counter- stories of resistance in the Black Mediterranean. Intended not only as a physical space but also as a symbolic site, the Black Mediterranean can be seen as a new theoretical approach useful to understand the racialized production of bodies and borders, and to highlight forms of resistance. The course will focus on Italy and its (post)colonial ties with Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Going from the Italian invasion of Eritrea in 1890 to the current so-called “refugee crisis”; the case of Italy illustrates the intersections and resignification of race, bodies and borders in the Mediterranean region, as well as the presence of important histories of resistance and alternative conceptualisations of belonging.
Instructor: A. Pesarini
Prerequisite: 14 FCE, including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS410H1 - Diasporic Foodways
Winter 2024, Wednesdays 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Food links people across space and time. As it spirals outward from parochial sites of origin to articulate with new sites, actors and scales, it assumes new substance and meaning in new locales. This movement of food gives rise to new ‘foodways’ to help us to understand the past in terms of temporally connected sites of intense interaction. Food also plays a strong role in shaping translocal identities. As peoples have moved in the world, food has played a central role in (re)defining who they are, reproducing myth and ritual, and bounding diasporic communities. This course seeks to address questions surrounding the dynamics of the food ‘we’ eat, the ways in which ‘we’ eat, the meaning ‘we’ give to eating, and the effect of eating in a transnational world. Recognizing that culinary culture is central to diasporic identifications, the focus is on the place of food in the enduring habits, rituals, and everyday practices that are collectively used to produce and sustain a shared sense of diasporic cultural identity.
Instructor: K. MacDonald
Prerequisite: 14 FCE, including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS412H1 - The Diasporic Imagination
Winter 2024, Tuesdays 2:00pm - 4:00pm
This course focuses on echoes of diasporic and transnational life in artistic work, and on the significance of aesthetic production to the formation of diasporic and transnational worlds. How have practices, producers, and works of art illuminated the particularities of diasporic life? How do conventions of genre, performance, and tradition shape experiences of borders and crossings? Areas of emphasis will vary but may spotlight particular historical and geographic contexts, and may foreground one or more form, including film, poetry, fiction, music, and dance.
Instructor: E. Sammons
Prerequisite: 14 FCE, including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
DTS414H1 - Money on the Move
Fall 2023, Tuesdays 10:00am – 12:00pm
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, industry and finance matured together, pushing people into motion around the world. The instruments of long-distance trade, like insurance, credit, and debt, connected people in new and sometimes unsettling ways. The free movement of goods and cash was mirrored by restrictions on migration to some parts of the world and by forced or coerced migration to others. This course explores the history of the rise of global capitalism at a human scale, exploring how financialization, industrialization and imperialism overlapped and intertwined, and how the rise of liberalism and capitalism weighed on human lives.
Instructor: P.Scanlan
Prerequisite: 14 FCE, including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS416H1 - Wars, Diaspora, and Music
Fall 2023, Wednesdays10:00am – 12:00pm
The course explores how composers, performers, songwriters and audiences made sense of traumatic and violent events that they experienced, such as ethnic conflicts, wars, exile and displacement, through music. We will also look at how government ideologies employ music during wars. The case studies will include stories of Jewish, Palestinian, Afghan, Romani, Korean, Rwandan and other diasporas severely affected by wars and violence.
Instructor: A.Shternshis
Prerequisite: 14 FCE, including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)
REGARDING DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES COURSES
University of Toronto Mississauga courses that can be applied to the program
Please visit the UTM Diaspora & Transnational Studies page.